Black Music Research Journal articles from March 22 2003

Black Music Research Journal archives from March 22 2003

Black musicians in Appalachia: an introduction to Affrilachian music.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... This special issue of Black Music Research Journal, devoted to the African-American music of Appalachia, focuses on a long-neglected but important region of the African diaspora. Because the music of blacks in the Appalachian region has been...

Appalachian blues.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... By sheer coincidence, the U.S. Congress declared July 2002 to July 2003 "The Year of Appalachia" while, concurrently, the Senate designated 2003 "The Year of the Blues." Whatever the value of such congressional endorsements, the conjunction of...

Appalachian jazz: some preliminary notes.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... It hardly seems necessary to justify the study of jazz and jazz musicians, in this case Americans of African descent, in any effort to understand this music as the product of real individuals, people who belong to a place and who are formed in...

Movin' the mountains: an overview of rhythm and blues and its presence in Appalachia.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Think of Appalachian music and, initially, the associations are likely Anglo. Terms like "bluegrass," "country," "old-timey," "string band," "hillbilly," and "mountain music" spring to mind. However, given the enormous sweep of...

A candle for queen Ida.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Ida Prather Cox)(Critical Essay)(Biography)
March 22, 2003... in a jook joint on no map but the map of memory the private possession of a few and one of them... sometimes asks where was that? somewhere back in the woods...--davenport (1991, 26) In Los Angeles, in 1982, I was invited to hear a white...

Music box meets the Toccoa band: the godfather of soul in Appalachia.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... "You ought to be in Toccoa this time of year, the mountains. That's air so fresh, the honeysuckle.... That's another place up there." --James Brown (1990, xxviii) It was a warm June afternoon in Toccoa, Georgia, in 1973, and I was...

Fiddling as an avenue of black-white musical interchange.(African-American Music of Appalachia)
March 22, 2003... It is common for historians to view the development of American popular music in terms of the blending of African and European musical elements and the melding of folk and popular traditions. A textbook designed for use in university-level...

Black banjo songsters in Appalachia.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... By the twentieth century, the five-string banjo had become the symbol of Appalachia and its "hillbillies." At the turn of the twentieth century, individualized local styles of old-time Appalachian string music rang out from nearly every holler...

The three doc(k)s: white blues in Appalachia.(African-American Music of Appalachia)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In his 1961 discussion of the Carter Family's recording of "Coal Miner's Blues," folklorist Archie Green (1961, 231) asked an important question: "How did [the blues] penetrate the Southern Highlands and sink into the consciousness of white...